When life gives you lemons, be difficult and make grape juice!

Not necessarily the odd one out, but never really fitting "in". This is my life and everything in it. All the love, laughter and happiness; and sometimes the sadness too. This is my journey as a fruitloop in this world full of cheerios, trying to make my mark and live every day to the fullest! (if you have to ask, I am an orange fruitloop)

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SUMMARY
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multiple deadlines ~ special projects ~ managing details ~ writing ~  travel/appointment scheduling ~ organizing ~ computer knowledge ~ events ~ displays

In my most recent position, I was responsible for event planning, marketing, project and product management, shipping, budgets and customer relations. I also have over eight years experience in the retail business varying from working for Harley Davidson to Macy’s. In addition, I have over five years experience working in the clerical field and an office setting. I work well in changing situations and environments with little or no supervision. I type 65 wpm.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Experts Exchange                           04/07—06/10            San Luis Obispo, CA
Marketing Coordinator
Previous Positions: User Experience Coordinator, Member Appreciation Coordinator, Marketing Assistant, Customer Service Rep.
  • 1st Corporate Account representative, creating documentation and processes for the customer service department to use with Corporate Accounts.
  • Maintain member relations and create new member appreciated features
  • Give out appreciation awards to our online experts
  • Conduct corporate events (ranging one to five days) with attendees from around the world, planning travel, lodging, entertainment and events for each conference
  • Budget planning; creating budget proposals and giving updates on a monthly basis
  • Order promotional items for the company, as well as keep a running inventory
  • Complete charge of the shipping department
  • Creating and maintaining website standards
  • Writing and conducting Usability Tests and reporting results to management and team members   
  • Conducting reviews on all wireframes sent through the pipeline to maintain a  consistent user experience, accuracy and functionality
  • Creating wireframes, site maps, process flows, and other design documentation
  • Project management from development through live site implementation, working with the Creative, Quality Assurance and Engineering Teams.
  • Testing new site features in internal, test, beta and live environments to ensure accuracy and functionality
  • Writing testing documents for the Quality Assurance team
  • Content creation and market research for new sites

Sephora         06/06—02/07            San Luis Obispo, CA
Beauty Consultant
  • Consulted customers on hair, make-up and skin care products
  • Make-up application and training for clients on a daily basis
  • Assisted management in creating forms for tracking dollars made per consultation
  • Assisted in setting up attractive window displays and retro-fitting stores
  • Make-up artist for local fashion show at Farmers Market

Measure J, The Dalidio Project      09/06—11/06     San Luis Obispo, CA
Phone Bank Coordinator
  • Supervised up to 25 phone bankers five to six nights per week
  • In charge of scheduling, staffing and coordinating with the campaign manager
  • Helped the Campaign Coordinator with event planning
  • Campaigned at the Farmers Market handing out flyers, brochures, etc.
  • Hired as the make-up artist for Ernest Dalidio for a local commercial

Prescriptives, at Macys          02/06—05/06          Santa Rosa, CA
Beauty Consultant
  • Consulted customers on hair, make-up and skin care products
  • Make-up application and training for clients on a daily basis
  • Assisted in setting up in house events and flyers

Torrid                          02/05—02/06            Santa Rosa, CA
Assistant Manaager
  • Assisted customers in their buying needs, adding items to fitting rooms that matched the customers interests per store policy
  • Supervision of sales associates, hiring and training new associates as well as tracking daily, weekly and monthly sales goals.
  • Cash register use; processed returns and handled customer service issues
  • Assisted in setting up attractive window displays and merchandising
  • Created weekly schedules and sales tracking sheets for promotions, individual employees and personal goals.

VOLUNTEER WORK AND GROUPS
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Templeton Pentecostal Church
  • Outreach Program, Child Care and Sunday School
  • Writing of and distribution of bulliten          
           
American Cancer Society SLO Relay for Life                                 
  • Christmas Parade Organizer (06-08)
  • Online Chair (06-07)               
  • Survivorship Chair (07-08)
  • Team member (2009)

Experts Exchange Fundraising                     
  • Water Run (Wine for Water) – Raised money through potlucks and other events
  • Unicef (Help for Haiti) – Raised money through potlucks and other events
  • Prado Day Center – Cooked and served hot breakfast once a month

Young Professionals Networking Group (YPNG)                
  • Social/Outreach Committee Member
  • 3rd & 4th Anniversary Party Planning Committee Member         
  • Wine Tour Planning Committee Member

San Luis Obispo Downtown Association           
  • Concerts in the Plaza Volunteer

EDUCATION
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Santa Rosa Jr. College                    Santa Rosa, California
Psychology
General education with some coursework in psychology and criminal justice, 2004—2006

Templeton High School                   Templeton, California
General Education
Graduated 2004

COMPUTER SKILLS
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Windows XP ~ Windows Vista ~ Windows 7 ~ PowerPoint ~ Outlook ~ Mozilla Thunderbird ~ Adobe Photoshop ~ Microsoft Office ~ Adobe Acrobat ~ Axure ~ Sourceforge ~ Lighthouse ~ Jira ~ Social Media Site Knowledge
~ Created website for my mom’s business, Girl Friday: http://thegirlfriday.weebly.com/index.html

REFERENCES
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Available upon request
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